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PORTLAND, OREGOX. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1922
PRICE FIVE CENTS
NINE WOMEN DECLINE
TO SERVE ON JURY
PUPILS FINISHING HIGH
SCHOOLS 29 PER CENT
SPRINGLIKE WEATHER
HITS PORTLAND AREA
MANAGING COMMITTEE
OF EXPOSITION NAMED
MILLIONS LOST
L OF
MEN WILL- TRY CHINESE ON
TOXG MURDER CHARGE.
SMALL RATIO FOR PORTLAND
EXCEEDS OTHER CITIES.
MERCURY RISES WITH BOOD
FROM 41 TO 53 DEGREES.
BOARD WILL ACT IN ABSENCE
OF CHAIRMAN MEIER.
A
BONUS DM
Si TUNG ACCORD
CHEST CAMPAIGN
CHIEFS SANGUINE
BIGGEST PROBLEM
INASSESSMENTS
1
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Leaders in Congress Ad
mittedly Worried.
PEOPLE'S MANDATE IS CLEAR
Difficulties, However, Seem
Almost Formidable.
INTEREST WEIGHTY ITEM
I'roposal to Make Payments to Sol
1 dicra Out of Allied Debts De
i clared Sheer Nonsense.
BY MARK SULLIVAN.
Copyright, by tn New York Evening
Post, Inc. Published by Arrangement.)
WASHINUTON, D. C. Jan. 26.
(Special.) It Isn't merely the bulk
of the soldiers who are demanding: a
g bonus; what weighs more with con
J greas is the fact that the bulk of the
people generally seem to be demand
ing It.
It readily was apparent that the
one episode that had most to do with
causing Harding and the republican
leaden to change front was an elec
tion held in Ohio last fall. That elec
tion was on the specific issue of a
bonus to be paid by the state locally
to Its own soldiers. The project car
Tied by a vote of something like 900,
. Clio to 300.000, and the state was di
rected by the clear mandate of the
people to make an Initial appropria
tion of some $25,000,000. That was in
terpreted as an unmistakable Indica
tion of public feeling such as no party
1c power could Ignore.
It might be said that If the thing
Is not right the party ought to be
willing to resist and go out of power.
But that Is the sort of counsel of per
fection which no party lives up to.
Moreover, the republicans are more
or lesa in the right when they say
they are for the bonus not because
they fear for re-election but because
It Is the duty of those who are man
aging the country to obey an unmis
takable mandate of public opinion.
Leaders Much .Concerned-
The subject Is admittedly difficult,
and It Is causing the leaders' more
worry than any other thing in the
present political situation. They un
derstand Secretary Mellon's opposi
tion, and admit It Is sound. Incident
Ally Mr. Mellon in his letter did not
make clear the largest single finan
cial objection to passing the bonus
bill at this time. The objection rests
,, V on Interest rates.
' Th. Interest rat nn mnnov fnr h.lh
public and private borrowers has been
going down steadily. The chief rea
son Is that the government, by a
gradual process, baa been spending
less and less money for more than,
two years past. It was on September
1, 1919, that the peak of government
expenditures was passed. This gradual
reduction of government expenditures
and of Interest rates might be ex
pected to continue to go. on, but If
the government must borrow some
thing like a billion more during the
present year. In order to meet the
bonus, the process will be reversed.
From Mr. Mellon's point of view,
the heart of the situation lies in the
fact that the government already has
among Its debts $8,500,000,000 of short
term notes which will come due and
must be paid within the next 16
months. In the normal course Mr.
Mellon would pay off these notes by
borrowing an equivalent sum from
the public on refunding bonds, which
would run for many years.
Interest Weighty Item.
Normally Mr. Mellon could expect to
make this new borrowing at a rea
sonably low rate of Interest. But if
he must, in addition, raise another
billion dollars to meet the bonus, the
interest rates will go up. Not only
will the Interest rate on the billion
Involved In the bonus be high but it
W ill also be high on the other six and
a ' half billions. Whatever rate is
fixed will extend over many years.
As a result of this. It has been said
that to pay the bonus now would
amount to paying it twice once In
the shape of the present cash pay
ment and once in the shape of the
unnecessarily added interest burden.
To put It In another way, the gov
ernment could better afford to pay
the soldiers $2,000.000.000 .three years
from now than $1,000,000,000 now.
The best Informed' persons tell me
that the project of paying the bonus
out of receipts from our Kuropean
debtors is sheer nonsense. There iS
l.ot the faintest prospect of getting
any cash payment that amount to
anything out of these Kuropean coun
tries In the near future. In the oper
ation of refunding these Kuropean
debts we shall be able to get a dif
ferent and better form of security
and otherwise manage things to our
advantage, but no well-Informed per
son believes we will get any meas
urable amount of immediate cash.
Only Bookkeeping; Matter.
Anyhow, this whole suggestion Is a
mere bookkeeping operation. Any
money ws get from Europe will go
Into the treasury, and will be avail
able to meet ordinary treasury obli
gations. To attempt to earmark it
for the soldiers' bonus Is camouflage.
If Is merely the sort of device that
Ctucuacil ud Pag Coluuia 2.)
Eight of Fair Sex Send Word That
They Would Not Sit and One
Refuses In Person.
Though the law is operative and an
opportunity wag given nine women of
Portland yesterday to serve on a cir
cuit court Jury, the local courts have
yet to see a woman on the jury panel.
Unanimously, all the women whose
names were drawn In thj special ve
nire needed In the Toy Chong murder
case asked to be excused. Under the
law, service on a Jury Is optional with
a woman.
Of nir woman served with rub-
penas, eight sent In word that they
did not care to serve and only one
answered in person. She. was told by
Lou Harlow, deputy county clerk,
that all she had to do to escape. Jury
duty was to sign "No" on a prepared
blank, and with a sigh of relief she
did so.
Of 16 men drawn on the special
venire, all but nine cculd not serve
and those nine were quickly elimin
ated by attorneys. A Jury was not
obtained until nearly 4 o'clock, when
Jurors released from the Thomas
Askay damage suit In Judge Morrow's
court were available. Opening state
ments were made Just before 5
o'clock. Toy Chong la accused of kill
ing Wong Gee at Fourth and Davis
streets in the recent tons war.
EUGENE, Or.. Jan. 25 (Special.)
Mrs. F. A. Rankin, wife of a local
dealer In musical goods and mother of
Colonel Creed C. Hammond of Port
land, has the distinction of being the
first woman Juror to be called on a
case In Lane county. Mrs. Rankin's
name was the first drawn in a civil
case in the Eugene justice court this
afternoon and she was accepted for
duty.
Mrs. George N. McLean, wife of a
Eugene Insurance agent, was another
member of the Jury and the four oth
ers were men. The case Involved the
sum of $57 allged due as rental on a
house. The Jury found for the de
fendant. SALEM, Or., Jan. 25 (Special.)
Mrs. Cora M. Kay, wife of T. B. Kay,
member of the lower house of the
legislature, has the distinction of be
ing the first woman in Marion county
drawn for Jury service. Mrs. Kay
was Included in the panel drawn for
jury service during the March term
of the circuit court, but it became
necessary to draw upon this panel
yesterday when the list of so-called
old jurors was exhausted.
' Because the county has not yet had
time to arrange accommodations for
women jurors. Judge Kelly ordered
that. Mrs. Kay should not be required
to serve during the present terra of
court. A man was selected In her
place.
PHONE DECISION NEAR
Rate Case to Be Settled Early In
February, It Is Indicated.
SALEM. Or.. Jan. 25. (Special.)
An order In the Pacific Telephone &
Telegraph rate case probably will be
handed down by the Orejjo public
service commission earl .a Febru
ary, it was Intimated toda. by Fred
A. Williams, chairman of the com
mission. The case was heard In Salem last
summer and approximately 40 days
were required to hear the testimony
and arguments. Witnesses were in
attendance from many parts of the
United States, Including the officials
of the American Telephone & Tele
graph company, with headquarters In
New York.
The hearing resulted from an order
of the commission authorizing an in
crease in the rates of the Pacific Tele
phone company ranging from 20 to
200 per cent.
GIRL IN RUNAWAY UNHURT
Child Stays in Wagon as Team
Goes on Wild Plunge.
ALBANY. Or., Jan. 25. (Special.)
A ride of more than a ml e behind a
runaway team which plunged across
country, through a barbed wire fence,
across all kinds of rough ground and
stopped in a berry patch was expe
rienced this week by thj 4-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Coles
of North Albany.
The little girl was unhurt.
The child was In the wagon alone
while the driver was loading some
machinery in the wagon, when the
team became frightened and started
to run. She maintained her place on
the seat during most of the wild ride,
but was jolted off into the wagon bed
when the wagon crossed a ditch.
JAZZ BARRED IN SCHOOL
Chicago Board Also Prohibits Other
Modern Joys.
CHICAGO. Jan. 23. Chicago's board
of education placed Its official taboo
on the shimmy dance, jaxz music,
short skirts, low necked dresses. Joy
riding and cigarettes today.
The action followed an investiga
tion by the superintendent or scnoois.
CHIEF REMEMBERS IBERIA
l'ostofflce Where Harding Attended
College Re-established.
GALION. O.. Jan. 251 By special or
der of President Harding the village
of Iberia today has a postofflce.
The office was discontinued in 1919,
but has been re-established on orders
from the president, "in recognition of
the place where he attended college."
Chinese Requested to Ac
cept Compromise.
DECISION IS UP TO PEKIN
Japanese Willing to Make
Principal Concessions.
LOAN PLAN ABANDONED
President Takes Hand in Negotia
tions to Remove Barrier From
Arms Conference.
WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. 25.-(By
the Associated Press.) The aid of
President Harding has been enlisted
by the .arms delegatea to bring Japan
and China Into agreement on Shan
tung. Taking a direct hand In the Wash
ington negotiations for the first time,
the president today urged the Chinese
to accept the latest compromise offer
and thus remove from the field of
controversy a subject which has be
come a barrier to the progress of thj
conference. Whether the move is to
succeed appears to rest largely with
Pekin. The Japanese already have
Indicated Informally their willing
ness to make the principal conces
sions propoced and the president ap
proached the Chinese only after the
Japanese ambassador had Informed
the state department th.-.t his govern
ment was ready to accept a tender of
good offices.
Japan Abandon Loaa Plan.
The settlement plan sponsored by
President Harding deals only with
the return of the Tsingtao-Tslnanfu
railroad, substantially all other ques
tions having been agreed upon In the
exchange between the Japanese and
Chinese. Under the proposal Japan
would abandon ber proposition for a
loan to China and tie latter would
purchase the road with treasury notes
payable at option 5 to 15 years hence.
China would receive possession within
five years, but would withdraw oppo
sition to retention of a Japanese traf
fic officer and accountant during the
period of payment.
Although several days may be re
quired to reach a final decision, one
immediate effect of the day's develop
ments was to bring into relief the
importance of Shantung In the gen
eral scheme of conference accom
plishments. It is an open secret that until
Shantung Is settled most of the com
mitments partially entered into here
must remain Indefinite.
The naval treaty, complete except
for the fortifications article, was
given another examination tody by
the committee of 15, but no changes
were made.
Today's meeting of the far eastern
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Graduates of Girls' Polytechnic to
Appear in Simple Frocks of
Their Own Making.
Of a typical annual enrollment of
Portland school children, from sta
tistics compiled in connection with
the graduation classes of this year,
only 29 per cent complete high school.
Small as this percentage seems to be,
it Is nearly twice as large as the
general average for American public
schools.
Assistant Superintendent of Schools
Rice, contrasting the number of
graduates with the number of pupils
who . entered originally, has made
public the following figures:
Twelve years ago, when the class
entered the primary rooms. It num
bered 4030 children. Of these 3005
were graduated from the eighth
grade, but only 2700 entered high
school. Graduates at the June com
mencement exercises numbered 709.
and graduates of the present class
number 450. or a total of 1159 for the
end of the 12-year course. The fig
ures show that from the lower grades
upward of 3000 children have left
school, for various reasons, and this
without an estimate of the additions
of new scaolars from other places.
The first commencement exercises
of the closing terms were held last
night at Lincoln high school audi
torium, when the High School of
Commerce graduated a class of 30.
At the commencement exercises ot
the Girls' Polytechnic school, to be
held in Lincoln high auditorium to
night, the girl graduates will wear
colored organdie dresses made by
themselves and costing from $5 to $7
each.
The remaining high schools will
hold their commencement exercises
tomorrow night, in their own school
buildings, as follows: James John, 18
Washington. 83; Jefferson, 112,
Franklin, 42; Benson Polytechnic, 44;
Lincoln, 68.
MILK DROP PREDICTED
Dairy Official Says Surplus Will
Cause Slump in Price.
BUFFALO. N. T.. Jan. 25. Lower
prices for milk, due to a great sur
plus, was forecasted by W. T. Schil
ling of Nortnfield. Minn., president of
the Twin Cities Milk Producers' as
sociation, at a meeting of milk pro
ducers here last -night.
"There is going to be enough milk
in the next two months to drown one
of you," Mr. Schilling said.
This condition is nation-wide. Mr.
Schilling said, basing his statement
on observations during two months'
travel in the United States and Can
ada. FALLEN RULERS DITCHED
Portugal Declines to Support Ex-
emperor Charles and Zita.
LISBON, Jan. 25. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The Portuguese gov
ernment, it was announced today, has'
Informed the allied council of ambas
sadors that Portugal will be unable to
stand the expense of supporting ex
Emperor Charles of Austria-Hungary
and his wife Zita on the island of
Madeira.
Storm Warnings Posted for Gale
Along Pacific Northwest Coast.
Rain Is Predicted.
Weather of springlike variety was
experienced in Portland and vicinity
yesterday, after weeks of sub-normal
temperature conditions. In the
afternoon, under the benign Influence
of sun and a warm wind from the
west, the thermometer rose to 62 de
grees, while the lowest recorded in
the 24 hours ending at 5 o'clock last
night was 41 degrees abovs sero.
This, contrasted with the low tem
perature of 16 degrees above sero,
registered officially a week ago.
caused Portland residents to flock
out of doors.
The day was marked by typical
vagaries of spring's advent. Early
in the day hall fell In some parts of
the city, to be followed later by
rain and intermittent sunshine.
For today rain is forecast for
Portland and vicinity. Along the
coast storm warnings were posted.
ASTORIA, Or, Jan. 25. (Special.)
The weather bureau today ordered
warnings posted at all stations be
tween Cape Mendocino and Cape Flat
tery, stating that a storm of consid
erable energy is approaching the
North Pacific coast and will cause a
fresh to strong northwest gale to
night. In spite of these warnings,
the barometer, which had been fall
ing nearly all night, started up at 4
o'clock this morning and this after
noon registered 30 degrees.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25. South
west gales, lashing the coast from
Cape Mendocino northward, accom
panied by ra'n or unsettled or threat
ening weather, will break the cold
snap's grip on the Pacific seaboard
during the next 24 hours, except In
southern California, according to the
forecast of the Unite.- States weather
bureau here today. A strong blow,
reaching gale force on the Washing
ton and Oregon shoreline, is on the
programme for tonight and tomorrow.
CONVICTS ATTACK SHIP
Crew of Steamer Sonoma Quells
Raid, Fearing Robbery.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25 An at
tack by naval convicts on members of
the crew of the steamship Sonoma at
Pago. Pago, Samoa, was stopped by
tht use of revolvers when officers of
the ship feared that an attempt might
be made to break into the specie
tanks, containing $2,000,000. accord
ing to the stories told by officers on
arrival of the Sonoma here today.
On the last trip here from Aus
tralia $128,000 In sovereigns was
stolen from the specie tanks but later
recovered. .
FORD SIGNS CONTRACT
Lease and Purchase of Muscle
Shoals Project Involved.
DETROIT, Jan. 25. The contract
covering the proposed lease and pur
chase of the government's nitrate
and water power projects at Muscle
Shoals, Ala., was signed by Henry
Ford and returned to the war depart
ment tonight, a few hours after it
had been received. It was announced.
Flying Squadrons Report
Gratifying Results.
WOMEN MAKE GOOD START
Downtown and Residential
Canvass Opens Strong.
FOREIGN FIRMS LIBERAL
Subscriptions of 1921 Doubled and
Indications All Point to Suc
cess of Drive.
COMMUNITY CHEST MEETINGS
TODAY.
Noon, Multnomah hotel Gen
erals and colonels of all divi
sions meet in Arcadian garden.
General instructions will be
given.
Noon, Multnomah hotel Fly
ing squadron meets In ballroom
on mezzanine floor to report
subscriptions.
4 P. M., Peninsula National
bank, St. Johns Colonel John
Edlefsen's captains meet for
training.
BY BEN HUR LAMPMAN.
There's the chest, empty and gap
ing, waiting for the public outpour
ing of treasure that will finance It for
another year In the service of charity
and public benefaction.
Waiting, to be precise, for $798,777,
the sum which will insure that happl.
r.ess and help shall visit thousands In
the twelvemonth to come.
Waiting for next Monday, when the
highly organized and Intensively
trained community chest organization
is to take the field for the cause.
Cheat Otrlelal Sana-nine.
Are there omens of success? Well,
as to that, the chest officials are not
in the least chesty, and hold with due
caution that everyone must step to
the front and enlist If the campaign
is speedily over, but point with pride
to certain very comforting indica
tions. For the flying squadrons were
Impatient to charge, and their first
reports are certainly not dishearten
ing. Through business and residential
districts they have galloped their
ways toward a few individual objec
tives, and the ease with which these
were taken augurs well for next
week.
Thus it was when the fair troopers
of Mrs. C. B. Simmons' residential
division laid selge to a contributor
who gave $1500 to last year's fund.
The engagement was brief, and the
result decisive. They retired in good
order with precisely double that
amount, or $3000 for the 1922 com
munity chest.
Foreign Corporations Liberal.
And again when H. R. Blauvelt,
chairman of the foreign corporations
division, gathered up a few early
replies to bis appeal aent to business
concerns of other residence but with
local offices here, and slit one en
velope to find a $5000 check, and an
other to beam upon a draft for $1500.
If these are straws, they are
weighty ones. In the opinion of cam
paign leaders and workers they are
indicative of a broader and more un
derstanding public sympathy than
ever before. Robert E. Smith, general
extraordinary, the unperturbed vet
eran of a score of giant drives, be
lieves these early Investments in pub
lic aid are most significant. In com
mon with others of the field organ
ization he is convinced that Portland
has watched the operation of the
community chest wi'.h aprovaL
Just One Fly la Batter.
"There is," he said yesteiday, per
mitting himself a sigh, "but one fly
in the butter. Why will people some
people circulate unfounded stories
that are detrimental to the cause?
Take these luncheons of ours. I un
derstand that It is gossiped that they
are paid for from the chest funds. Not
so at all, and far from such. The of
ficers who meet and erthuse and lay
plans over their coffee, pay out of
their own pockets. And so with
everything else.
"This organization of ours is deter
mined to see that every dollar given
to the chest goes to the chest, and
thence to those who should benefit
by It. None of us Is lunching at the
expense of the Baby's home, for ex
ample, and we really are much con
cerned that so foolish and th ughtless
a what-you-may-call-lt should have
gone flapping around."
Downtown Forces Jubilant.
Though actual figures have not
been released by the flying squadrons,
and are to be withheld until the cen
tral army marches on Monday, It is
commonly known that the troopers of
the downtown division are Jubilant.
At their luncheon yesterday noon
they reported total subscriptions
three times as large s those of Tues
day, and emphasized the fact that the
big subscribers are willing and ready
and all for the chest.
Temporarily cited for distinguished
service, though setting new records
In yurceseful solicitation of large
(Concluded on Pag 2, Column 4.)
Two Members of Body Represent
State at Large and Others
Are Portland Men.
Julius L. Meier, chairman of the
state-wide 1925 exposition board of
directors, last night announced the
members of the managing committee,
authorized at a meeting of the board
here last Tuesday afternoon. They
are Emery Olmstead, Franklin T.
Griffith, W. W. llarrah. Nathan
Strauss, ohn F. Daly. Guy W. Tal
bot, Ira F. Towers, C. C. Colt and
Frank G. Deckcbach. All but Messrs.
Harrah and Deckebach are residents
of Portland and those who will par
ticularly represent the state at large.
Mr. Harrah lives at Tendlaton and
Mr. Deckebach at Salem. f
This committee will have charge of
!1 phases of the exposition affairs
during the absence of Mr. Meier, who
will leave February 21 from San
Francisco on an extended Journey
around the world In the Interests of
the project, as announced by him at
the state-wide session Wednesday.
In a few days, Mr. Meier said, he will
call a meeting of the members of the
managing committee, at which vari
ous phases of the exposition project
will be discussed.
As previously published, there will
be no definite financial plan for the
exposition until after the primaries
next May, for the reason that the
members of the state-wide board feel
It would Involve this non-political
subject in a political Issue and there
fore 'would be a great detriment to It.
Jt was unanimously voted by the
Tvesday meeting of the board to
leave all phases of the ej position
project in the hands of the managing
committee until Mr. Meier returns
from his world trip, which probably
will be some time In June. He antici
pates being gone about four months
and will touch at many of the Im
portant foreign capitals and other
cities where it is his purpose to lay
before officials and groups of Influ
ential citizens the various features
of Oregon's exposition. He was
authorized on behalf of the state
wide committee to invite the peoples
and nations of the world to partici
pate In the show.
In due time, after the sentiment of
all parts of Oregon Is fully sounded
as to ways and means In' financing
the exposition, and following the
primaries, a definite financial pro
gramme will be outlined and the
project will be pushed to comple
tion. Any plan that will be adopted
will be such as is approved by the
various sections of the state ea
nearly as the wishes of each may be
ascertained and Incorporated into it.
MEAT DECLARED LOWER
Fre-War Dollar Said to Be Worth
7 2 Cents In Markets Now.
CHICAGO, Jan. 25. The pre-war
dollar now Is worth 72 cents when
spent for meat and 68 cents when
spent for other foodstuffs, according
to a statement made public today by
J. T. Russell, president of the Na
tional Association of Meat Councils.
Eighteen months ago, Mr. Russell
said, the pre-war dollar was worth
52 cents In the retail meat market
and a year ago 62 cents.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature, 62
degree; minimum, 41 decrees.
TODAY'S Occasional rmlns southwesterly
windn.
Foreign.
Funeral of pope to be at 8 o'clock today
Pag S.
- National.
Farm loans backed at capital meeting.
Page 2.
Hardin urges Chinese and Japanese to
reacb an agreement on Shantung,
rage 1.
Shooting of negro by officer charged.
Fu
Armament conference at Washington de
clared to be getting results. Page 8.
Borah blames treaty for Europe's failure
to pay. Page 5.
Bonus lue declared biggest problem con
fronting congress. Page 1.
Domestic
America's destiny In lei Hue of nations,
tays James M. Cox. Page 2.
Miss Rappe declared to have been 111 be
loie party. Page 8.
Armour A Co. and Fowter Packing com
pany accused of violating control act.
Page 4.
rarlflc Northwest.
Trade handicapped by poor cable service.
Page 7.
Sports.
Amateurs to keep their game clean.
Page IS.
Eastern stables carry off largest purse
In 1021 racing season. Page 17.
Stanford noses out Oregon. 23 to 21.
Page IS-
Commercial and Marine.
Hops withdrawn from sale by Chines
growers. Page 22.
Wheat lower at Chicago with export de
mand Jacking. Page 23.
Stock llrt reacts when money rate
strengthen. Page 23.
Five ocean steamers dispatched from Port
land with freight In day. Paie IT-.
Seattle delegatea report on marine meet
ing. Pase 6. ,
Portland and Vicinity.
Only 29 per cent of pupils entering public
schools finish high schools. Page 1.
Community chest leaders receive encour
aging reports from flying squadron.
Page 1.
Will contestant tells of alleged cruelty.
Page v.
Nine women decline to serv on Jury.
Page 1.
Millions lost to state through variety of
assessments. Page 1. '
Scat In convention is voted Rev. Mr. Jen
kins. Page 13.
Trade addresses feature stats convention
of Oregon hardwar and Implement
dealers. Pag 14.
Auto trad plan slate association. Pag 0,
Income tax blanks sent to outside. Page 15.
Springlike weather spreads over Portland
area. Page 1.
Chairman Meier appoint msnagtng com
niittee for expn.ltion during bis
sence abroad. Page 1.
Abolition of school dances held not Justl
fled. Pag
Lack of System Costs
State $17,257,339.
CLASSES VARIOUSLY PRICED
Dogs Rated Higher in Some
Places Than Livestock.
CENTRAL POWER WANTED
Land in One County Valued at $2.1
and In Another at $122, While
Animals Cover Wider Range.
WHAT TAX IWF.STIGATORS
IF.ARVKD.
Dogs are assessed higher In
some counties than livestock.
Difference between census
valuation and assessment roll
valuation on Oregon livestock
Is $55,724,211.
No attempt made to have equal
assessments by the various
county assessors on slm'lar
classes of property.
From 80 to 89 per cent of
Oregon apple orchards are
mortgaged and of these 50 per
cent have a second mortgage.
Pear and prune orchards In
better condition than apples, of
which 90 per cent of those
planted are never self-supporting.
To place automobiles on the
general tax roll would force the
state to raise by direct taxation
the money which comes from
licenses to meet principal and
Interest on road bonds.
An Income tax cannot take
all of the state load, but can
assume part of the burden.
Investigators still undecided
between level rate and gradu
ated Income tax.
A general overhauling la required
by the assessment system In Oregon.
Every county assessor acta Independ
ently of the others and some of the
results are startling, as developed in
the session of the state tax Investiga
tion commission yestetrday. Als
there is something radically wrong,
ns shown by the difference between
the federal census reports and the re
sults shown on the assessment rolls.
According to figures compiled, the
loss In assessed valation to the state,
taking Into consideration (he number
of animals escaping taxation, and th
average assessed value a head Is $17,
257,339. l'htinnnds Not Assessed.
The 1920 census fouod $4,761 mors
horses and mules; 227.440 more cat
tle; 650.818 more sheep and goats,
and 165,318 more swine than appear
on the assessment rolls. The census
enumerators found. In values. $10.
956.051 more horses and mules; $26.
703,559 more cattle; $14,413,291 more
sheep, and $3,631,310 more swine than .
the assessors did.
The total actual value of all ani
mals reported in the census was $98,
475,779, while the total assessed value
on the rolls for 1920, the same year as
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ARE THERE ANY HAREMS
LEFT IN TURKEY?
A degrading slavery at best,
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is the lot of the harem wife.
This she may not know for 2
herself, a daughter of the J
east but the world knows
and pities her. For there are ,
harems in Turkey today, as in ?
the time of Haroun al Ras-
chid.
Beginning in its next issue J
The Sunday Oregonian will J
present Mary Symons' great J
serial narrative, "The Last
Stronghold of Slavery," nar-
rating her own investigations,
through a story that reads like
fiction yet is fact. !
By stealth and intrigue she j
gained entrance to many
harems, and spoke in intimacy 2
with the hapless wives. And J
the message she brought
thence is one to stir us to I
hatred, and protest against a
practice that has no place in t
the 20th century, and that 2
should vanish before civiliza- J
tion. From the first chapter
youH read it, in successive
Sunday installments, to the !
last the first authentic un- J
masking of the Turkish
harem. All the news of all
the world. , J
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN 2
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